We recently ran a book review of political blogger and Austinite Amanda Marcotte‘s new book, It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments, but what we neglected to do was mention that you have two opportunities next week to meet the woman behind the blog.

Marcotte will be at BookWoman (5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105) on Wednesday, May 14, at 7pm for a reading and booksigning. The next day, she’ll turn around and do it all over again, appearing at MonkeyWrench Books (110 E. North Loop) at 7pm. (And by the way, a happy belated birthday to Austin’s favorite anarchist bookstore, which celebrated its sixth anniversary on April 27.)

Here’s some of what the Chron‘s Wells Dunbar had to say about Marcotte’s book:

“Ribald, bullshit-free, and empowering, it’s perfect for feminists in training – and a great example of transitioning a blog’s discrete observations, irritants, and outbursts into a satisfying whole.”

Read the whole review here.

This article appears in May 2 • 2008.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...